The New International Encyclopædia/Rottmann, Karl

ROTTMANN, rṓt'mȧn, (1798-1850). A noted German landscape painter, born at Handschuhsheim, near Heidelberg. He formed himself chiefly through the study of nature and of great masterworks, and after gaining prominence by &ldquo;Heidelberg at Sunset&rdquo; (water color), and &ldquo;Castle Eltz,&rdquo; he settled in Munich (1822), devoting himself to Bavarian scenery. His success in characterizing the main features of a landscape, and producing ideal effects in line and color, created a new epoch in landscape painting. During his travels in Italy (1826-28) he made sketches for the 28 Italian landscapes in fresco which he was commissioned to paint in the arcades of the Hofgarten at Munich (1829-33) and which constitute Rottmann's most sterling work, but unfortunately deteriorated under climatic influences. The cartoons for them are in the Darmstadt Gallery. In 1834-35 he was in Greece, and the results of this journey were 23 Greek landscapes, which were placed in a special room in the New Pinakothek, Munich. Of his easel pictures &ldquo;Ammer Lake&rdquo; and &ldquo;Marathon&rdquo; are in the National Gallery, Berlin; &ldquo;The Acropolis of Sikyon&rdquo; and &ldquo;Corfu&rdquo; in the Pinakothek, Munich; others in the Schack Gallery, Munich, and in Karlsruhe; and seven in the Leipzig Museum. Consult: Pecht, Deutsche Künstler, ii. (Nördlingen, 1879); and Regnet, in Dohme, Kunst und Künstler, iv. (Leipzig, 1885).